What is the meaning of hip-hop?

noun

  • An urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city.
  • Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged.
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